my goodness now after all the tools etc I need to carry there's no room left for me
Sheba said
04:15 PM Mar 24, 2012
Yuglamron wrote:
Hi Sharon,
One thing I would look at is your ability to change a tyre.Can you manage to undo the wheel nuts without too much problems.
In these days where tyre places wrongly use rattle guns to tighten wheel nuts instead of a torque wrench, and make it damn near impossible to remove them by hand it would be useful to have a tool which makes it possible.
I recently bought a specialist tool from of all places a ship chandlery which makes it very simple to undo tight wheel nuts.
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Safe Travels
Trevor
I bought an Impact Wrench to do just that. Cost around $70.00 from Repco.
Cheers,
Sheba.
03_troopy said
02:42 AM Mar 25, 2012
Or a piece of scrap metal pipe to go over the end of the wrench.. about $2.00 should cover it.
George said
10:13 PM Mar 25, 2012
Hello, just would like to add my bit. Before my last trip I checked to see if I could undo my wheel nuts and as mentioned the rattle gun had done them up so tight, they wouldnt budge. I had to go to tyre fitter to remove the wheel nuts and then used copper paste liberally on the threads. This works as an anti seize and makes it very easy to undo wheel nuts.
peacewalker said
05:37 PM Mar 26, 2012
wow what a good post,made my list for tool box, thanks everyone, still trying to sell, but have all my lists on the ready.
Cruising Granny said
07:37 PM Mar 26, 2012
The tyre fitters are not meant to tighten the wheel nuts to the immovable. They use the impact wrench to a set tension, and then they tighten them off with a manual wheel brace. I don't know where this applies, but my experiences have been in Broome, Esperance, Cairns and Adelaide. This was the policy of each tyre fitter.
rtv47 said
01:41 AM Apr 9, 2012
A dozen stubbies will get most things fixed??????????
Cruising Granny said
02:20 AM Apr 9, 2012
Ah, the old Kimberly Currency. Actually it's legal tender just about anywhere. A feed for a favour also works.
my goodness now after all the tools etc I need to carry there's no room left for me
Hello, just would like to add my bit. Before my last trip I checked to see if I could undo my wheel nuts and as mentioned the rattle gun had done them up so tight, they wouldnt budge. I had to go to tyre fitter to remove the wheel nuts and then used copper paste liberally on the threads. This works as an anti seize and makes it very easy to undo wheel nuts.
They use the impact wrench to a set tension, and then they tighten them off with a manual wheel brace.
I don't know where this applies, but my experiences have been in Broome, Esperance, Cairns and Adelaide.
This was the policy of each tyre fitter.
Actually it's legal tender just about anywhere. A feed for a favour also works.